May 31, 2006
the N3 Figure Crystal Globe, but Warning: DO NOT LOOK
Now the game has been released, and people went all the way to the redemption place to pick up the pretty Crytal Globe with Inphyy inside on day one. The actual product is really convulsing, t1174 from gamehit.net posted a photo of it.
But instead of posting this out, I rather leave you a link down below, and before that, i seriously warn you to forget about it and go back to whatever you are doing.
Ok, you are still here, really wanna check it out? Then I would like to clarify that I will NOT be responsible to anything that will happen to you afterwards.
ready?
here you go....
-->> The Actual N3 Inphyy Crytal Globe <<--
Well, I cannot find one single adjective that its suitable to describe this thing instead of one word... fuck!!!
What I said before is really ture: "Looks good? It looks good at least on this conceptual image, lets wait and see how will the final one be. Actually I rather prefer the key chain from Japan. Simple is the best, especially for a gift which you won't have too much to spend on it."
May 25, 2006
"Ninety-Nine Nights not out in June" - no not June, its May!!
Its really sucks to have regional constrains, the game is ready, but when will be a America / Europe release? No date has been set yet. For me, I wanna play Rockstar's Table Tennis but yet they don't have a plan for an asia release. damn.
Update 1: Photos added
(photo by stallon)
Update 2: After gamers play through the game, there are points (bugs) to note, which I assume the upcoming US/Europe retail versions will have them too:
1) The theme song "Your Color" by Japanese singer BoA, which was included in the Japanese version, has been deleted in the Asian version. Accourding to M$ insider, the deletion was due to the lack of the song's copyright outside Japan.
2) The Asian version has added multilingual subtitles with original Japanese dub. But for the CG cut-sences, only the first CG of "Innphy" was subtitiled, the CGs of the rest of them (Aspharr, Myifee, Tyurru, Klarann & Dwingvatt) had no subtitles. Instead of putting them back in the game via a patch or something, M$ Hong Kong prefered to put the dialogues on xbox.com.hk (Chinese Only). In response to this, the insider said the missing of subtitles was because Phantagram (the deverloper) did not gave them the original Japanese dialogue so that they simply cannot translate them, but why they can do so on xbox.com.hk afterward? trash talk.
May 2, 2006
A few photos for Major Nelson's Podcast # 172 The one about Australia
left: the Expert; right: MN
see the notebook on the left? Its MN's.
It has "XBOX Launch Team" Written on it. Cool stuff. But how many years since Xbox 1 launch? Ain't this an ancient Stuff?
April 28, 2006
Rockstar Table Tennis - actual gameplay video
a better quality version is available at Rapidshare.de
Both Rockstar and 2k Sports are under Take 2, this Table Tennis game really get the feel of Top Spin series. I guess the rhythm in this game will be higher than Top Spin, you play on a small table rather than the court, players are relatively larger than on the screen, good to show some next-gen details. The ping-pong ball with all kinds of spins look exactly as they should be, and they even put "Matrix" style slow motion during gameplay! Awsome!
Only one problem i am concerning: Will we have this game in Asia?? From GTA, GTA:SA, to NBA2K6, MLB2K6, NHL2K6, Top Spin 2, Take 2 totally ignored the Asian market. I cannot believe they still wrote the word "worldwide" on their site. Maybe Asia has already sunken on the map hanging in their headquarters.
I don't mind if they hate money from the Far East, but I do mind not having such great lineups. What they did really hurt everyone: themselves, gamers and Microsoft. Maybe its time for Microsoft to give them his giant hand, like last time they patted on the Lion's head.
Ninety-Nine Nights Updates: Pre-Order Launch Party in Hong Kong
Last time I said there will be at Pre-Order Launch Party in Hong Kong, I went there last night and take a look. One of the producer Mr. Sang Youn Lee from Phantagram came far away from Korea as our special guest, showing gamers and media what N3 is about. I can pretty much assume that anyone reading this blog should already know this game, and I am not going to repeat again.
See below Mr. Lee on the middle; Bryan our host on the right.
Mr. Lee playing N3 with gamers.
What are the goodies for those urge to pre-order? That is a Crystal Ball with one of the main character Inphyy inside.
They also have the N3 Originial Soundtrack giving out, which includes the theme song "Your Colors" by the Japanese singer BoA. To pick this home, you have to buy a wired/wireless controller together with your pre-order. At last this OST is tagged about US$25 at amazon, so no free lunch. This is how the world works, I can understand, but why controllers? This is a single player game (The US version should be online featured some said), we don't need another controller to play with, what a strange match up. They should change it to the 64MB memory unit, since no one is buying these, just like no one is buying the 360 core version. (How did Kotaku called this? "Oooh, burned")
Go back to the Pre-Order Launch Party, there was plenty of gamers there trying out the game. And yes there were 2 cosplay girls:
Check out the flickr badge for more of them:
Want some better cosplay? Check out the one in Japan N3 Launch:
references:
gamehit.net (Chinese Only)
xbox.com.hk (Chinese Only)
watch impress (Japanese)
Phantagram
April 26, 2006
Xbox 360 Cheerleaders in Australia Water Balloon Challenge
Time for solely Cheerleaders!!!
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Here is a little story: When I was walking around the Coogee Beach taking photos, Curry from Xboxic was on the other side of the cheerleaders, so we are both shooting each other, here is Curry's one:
So, I am the one on the right, holding my camera to take the same scene. Another friend of mine, Roberto from gaming-age also posted this photo on his forum. A guy called Wollan saw this and said that I was "Taking pictures everywhere and getting sick of fps games".
I really wanna to reply him that I was taking pictures because I am now going to share with you all, and I am not sick of fps games. Actually I love playing fps games (although not very good). But seems that the forum has already too many members and it stopped me from registration, so if Roberto read this, please do me a favor, I would like to be a member in gaming-age.
Here is the pic I took at the same scene. Note Curry is above the cheerleader with black hair, holding his camera to take his picture:
And check out this picture with Curry in wet...
April 25, 2006
Video blow out - Australia Water Balloon Challenge
The upcoming hottest Xbox Live Arcade Game: Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting
Original (with much better quality, but slow download, maybe):
SFII:HF 16MB (Right click to save ONLY)
Water Balloon Challenge - Strolling along the Battle Zone
Original (with much better quality, but slow download, maybe): Battle Zone 51MB (Right click to save ONLY)
The very moment of the Water Balloon Challenge - Beginning
Original (with much better quality, but slow download, maybe):
Beginning 108MB (Right click to save ONLY)
The Historic Mement Water Balloon Challenge - Break the Record
Original (with much better quality, but slow download, maybe):
Break the Record 47MB (Right click to save ONLY)
Water Balloon Challenge - Greeting from Hong Kong
Original (with much better quality, but slow download, maybe):
Greeting from Hong Kong 6MB (Right click to save ONLY)
note: I am really much pissed off by the video quality of youtube, so i am providing the original file for download, but the speeds are perhaps very very slow. Anyone can provide mirror hosting are wellcomed.
April 24, 2006
N3 Producer to meet media and gamer
One of the N3 producer, Mr. Sang Youn Lee from Phantagram will have a trip this week, meeting with media and gamer in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
He will show up in the "Xbox 360 Wow Place" in Hong Kong on 27/4/06, from 7pm to 9pm, as a special guest of the N3 pre-order launch. Also he will play with gamers and hopefully answer some questions.
Right after the event, Mr. Lee will then heads to Taiwan. He will show up in the Taiwan Microsoft Office in the next day (28/4/06) morning, having a private meeting with some core gamers form xbox-ism.com.
Stay tuned for the report of the events.
References (Chinese Only):
gamehit.net
Xbox.com.hk Official News
xbox-ism.com
He will show up in the "Xbox 360 Wow Place" in Hong Kong on 27/4/06, from 7pm to 9pm, as a special guest of the N3 pre-order launch. Also he will play with gamers and hopefully answer some questions.
Right after the event, Mr. Lee will then heads to Taiwan. He will show up in the Taiwan Microsoft Office in the next day (28/4/06) morning, having a private meeting with some core gamers form xbox-ism.com.
Stay tuned for the report of the events.
References (Chinese Only):
gamehit.net
Xbox.com.hk Official News
xbox-ism.com
April 19, 2006
Ninety Nine Nights in Asia
The Japanese NTSC-J version of N3 hit the shelve in Japan tomorrow, but you can already buy one if you are in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
It has a nice duel cover, one side is the official front cover art and the informative back cover, while the other side is a mosaic tiles of the CG scenes.
Photos form Garra.
About the game itself, it has Janpanese only dub and interface, but a Chinese version is on the way, and i guess its actually a multilingual version should be ready by the end of May. Hopefully America, Europe and Australia version will be releasing soon.
update: Actually the Chinese version I said IS a muiltilingual version, which includes Chinese, English & Korean interface, with the dub in Japanese untouched.
It has a nice duel cover, one side is the official front cover art and the informative back cover, while the other side is a mosaic tiles of the CG scenes.
Photos form Garra.
About the game itself, it has Janpanese only dub and interface, but a Chinese version is on the way, and i guess its actually a multilingual version should be ready by the end of May. Hopefully America, Europe and Australia version will be releasing soon.
update: Actually the Chinese version I said IS a muiltilingual version, which includes Chinese, English & Korean interface, with the dub in Japanese untouched.
March 18, 2006
Hong Kong Xbox 360 Launch
The Launch Event of Hong Kong Xbox 360 started from Zero Hour 16 March 2006, in the Toyrus store in Causeway Bay, the most trendy and fashionable place in Hong Kong, good fit for the very first next-gen console.
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show to the world
The next gen gaming started in Asia!!!
At 16 Mar 2006, Xbox 360 launched in Taiwan and Hong Kong. After reading the "Taipei Xbox 360 Launch Photos" from Kotaku's Blog, I realised that i should start writing this blog.
Taiwan and Hong Kong are Chinese speaking places, althrough many of the people here and there can read and write in English, most of the local game sites and forums are Chinese based. These sites and forums can easily provide their readers with translated gaming news, rumors, hot topics and so on from other English sites and forums. On the other hand, news, rumors and hot topics in these China Towns are hard to reach the foreign world.
My English is not good enough i think, but let me start doing this.
If you are interested to contribute your efforts to show to the world what's going on in the gaming industy, please sent me an email at flammablewheel-xbox@yahoo.com.
At 16 Mar 2006, Xbox 360 launched in Taiwan and Hong Kong. After reading the "Taipei Xbox 360 Launch Photos" from Kotaku's Blog, I realised that i should start writing this blog.
Taiwan and Hong Kong are Chinese speaking places, althrough many of the people here and there can read and write in English, most of the local game sites and forums are Chinese based. These sites and forums can easily provide their readers with translated gaming news, rumors, hot topics and so on from other English sites and forums. On the other hand, news, rumors and hot topics in these China Towns are hard to reach the foreign world.
My English is not good enough i think, but let me start doing this.
If you are interested to contribute your efforts to show to the world what's going on in the gaming industy, please sent me an email at flammablewheel-xbox@yahoo.com.
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